J.M. Williams Quotes

Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.

They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.

Crow walked toward her, arms outstretched like a man in a dream, which he was, in a way. Sometimes a dream is enough.

He swept Raisa up into his arms and kissed her like it was his first, last, and only

(A)ny time you buy weapons, or build an army, you begin to look for an excuse to use them. Plus, you pose more of a threat to others.

Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.

Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.

She had never felt more alive than when she lay dying in Han Alister's arms.

How'd it go with Leesha?" "It was great! We were bad cop and bad cop!

Jason felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a rock.

Commander! Sir! Wake up!" Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander.

He's not lazy. He's just highly inefficient.

And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.

Well now, Jack," Hastings said from the sidelines. "I'm afraid you've been beheaded. Not a good start." He sounded amused.

Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded.

He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.

The answer is no, I would rather marry the Demon King himself than marry you. I suggest you look elsewhere for a bride. And heaven help the one you choose.

So you questioned him?" Raisa prompted. "What did he say for himself?" "Well, the first thing Gillen does is steal his purse and beat him with a club." Amon said.

He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.

Her clothes still smoked from the wizard’s assault. But to him, she always smelled of flowers.

Sometimes you have to go somewhere else to appreciate what we have here.

I have lost everything, Han thought. Then he corrected himself. Every time I think I’ve lost everything, I find there’s still something else to lose.

But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.

It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.

The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice,” Hanalea said. “When that time comes, choose love.

Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.

The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.

A lot of men were also becoming more attuned and less afraid of women [in the nineties ].

The only word for love is everybody's name.

At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.

They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.

And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.

I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

I think music is another language.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.

There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.

...we're all in a soup of trying to live by words, and trying to live by poetry. It's both humbling, and really flattering to know that my words are part of all that.

Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.

And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.

Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.

I have a sordid past.

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?

Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world

And you bring your words, But you're just like them, You're unprepared 'Cause you don't know the terrain

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.